Verse 4

Haue ye suffered so great thynges in vayne? Yf it be yet in vayne.

Referenced Verses

• Heb 10:32-39 : 32 Call to remebraunce the former dayes, in the which after ye had receaued light ye endured a great fyght of aduersities: 33 Partly whyle ye were made a gasing stocke, both by reproches & afflictions, and partly whyle ye became companions of them whiche were so tossed to & fro. 34 For ye suffred also with my bondes, & toke in woorth the spoylyng of your goodes with gladnesse: knowyng in your selues how that ye haue in heauen a better and an enduryng substaunce. 35 Cast not awaye therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of rewarde. 36 For ye haue neede of pacience, that after ye haue done the wyll of God, ye myght receaue the promise. 37 For yet a very litle whyle, and he that shall come, wyll come, and wyll not tary. 38 And the iuste shall lyue by fayth: And yf he withdrawe hym selfe, my soule shall haue no pleasure in hym. 39 We are not of them that withdrawe our selues vnto perdition: but we parteyne vnto fayth, to the wynning of the soule.
• 2 John 1:8 : 8 Loke on your selues, that we loose not that we haue wrought: but that we may haue a full rewarde.
• 2 Pet 2:20-22 : 20 For yf they, after they haue escaped from the fylthynesse of the worlde, thorowe the knowledge of the Lord, & the sauiour Iesus Christe, are yet tangled agayne therein, and ouercome, then is the later end worse with them then the begynnyng. 21 For it had ben better for them not to haue knowen the way of righteousnes, then after they haue knowen it, to turne from the holy commaundement that was geuen vnto them. 22 But the same is happened vnto them that is vsed to be spoken by the true prouerbe: The dogge is tourned to his owne vomite againe, and the sowe that was wasshed, is turned againe to her wallowyng in the myre.
• Ezek 18:24 : 24 Agayne, if the righteous turne from his righteousnesse, and do iniquitie, and shall do according to all the abominations that the wicked man doth: shall he liue? All the righteousnesse that he hath done shall not be remembred, but in his transgression that he hath committed, in his sinne that he hath sinned, in them he shall dye.
• 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 By the which also ye are saued, yf ye kepe in memorie after what maner I preached vnto you, except ye haue beleued in vayne.
• Heb 6:4-6 : 4 For it can not be that they which were once lighted, and haue tasted of the heauenly gyft, and were become partakers of the holy ghost, 5 And haue tasted of the good worde of God, and the powers of the worlde to come: 6 And they fall away, shoulde be renued agayne into repentaunce, hauyng crucified to the selues the sonne of God a fresshe, and made a mocke of hym.